It led by example five years ago in terms of commitment to animal welfare, when
it banned bullfights and animal circuses.
Catalonia
banned Bullfighting in 2010 and Monument's increasingly low turnouts mean that it will hold the last of Catalonia's corridas in 2012, following which it will be turned into a small concert arena and bullfighting museum.
Not exact matches
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro Carambula, the director of the Rome office of Human Life International, told LifeSiteNews «that the
banning of
bullfighting in Spain... even as [the government promotes] abortion, represents a triumph of newly invented moral values based on arbitrary «progressive» whims and social fads.»
On Friday, LifeSiteNews.com made note of the fact that this regional
bullfight ban was passed into law just as Spain's new, more liberal abortion law is coming into effect, and that «the irony has not been lost on pro-life observers.»
As to
bullfighting, the resolution
bans «any action that causes the mutilation or death of a non-human resident.»